35th Tango Community Meeting

14 Sept 2021, 13:30 → 15 Sept 2021, 17:50 Europe/Paris

The 35th Tango Community Meeting gathers together the community of users and developers of the Tango Controls toolkit (https://tango-controls.org). This is the 35 meeting in the series. Talks from new sites, projects and the kernel developments.

The meeting is open to all. Due to the pandemic the meeting will be virtual via video conferencing. Please register to get the link.

Tuesday, 14 September

13:30 → 13:45 Welcome

Welcome words and opening address

Convener: Nicolas Leclercq (ESRF)

13:30 Welcome words

Welcome to the 35th Tango Community Meeting

Speaker: Nicolas Leclercq (ESRF)

13:35 Opening Address

Some words to open and set the scene of the Tango Community Meeting.

Speaker: Andy Gotz (ESRF)

13:45 → 14:45 Projects Status: I

Projects status reports.

Convener: Vincent Hardion (MAX IV Laboratory)

13:45 SKAO Status Update

Latest news from SKAO project.

Speaker: Mr Sonja Vrcic (SKAO)

SKA-StatusUpdate-SonjaVrcic-20210914.pdf

14:05 Tango based GMRT Control System : An Exploratory Prototype for the SKA Telescope Manager

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), built and operated by the NCRA (India) is a SKA path-finder facility. The Monitor & Control system of GMRT is upgraded using the TANGO software framework. It is developed in synergy with the SKA­-TM work package by considering similar design ideas and technology choices. The Tango based GMRT Control (TGC) System is composed of specification driven generic control nodes which are organized hierarchically. The configuration defined in the Tango database, and custom RDBMS schema is used to identify the role of control nodes in the control hierarchy. The TGC system has been operational since the last couple of years.
This talk will cover the learning and experiences from the Tango based Next Generation GMRT M&C System, such as implementation of the Tango framework, specification driven system to promote loose coupling, aggregation node implementation for antenna array and sub-arrays, and the context based fully featured GUIs using the Taurus etc.

Speaker: Mr Jitendra Kodilkar (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Pune, India)

tgc_talk_final.pdf

14:25 ESRF-EBS Status

The ESRF-Extremely Brilliant Source (ESRF-EBS) is the first-of-a-kind fourth-generation high-energy synchrotron. After only a 20-month shutdown, scientific users were back to carry out experiments with the new source. This talk gives an overview of the EBS status from its Accelerator Control Unit (ACU) point of view. It also offers the opportunity to present some of the projects currently under development.

Speaker: Nicolas Leclercq (ESRF)

ESRF-EBS-Status-Tango-Community-Meeting-Sep.2021.pptx

14:45 → 15:05 Coffee break - Open discussion in Zoom rooms

15:05 → 16:05 Projects Status: II

Projects status reports.

Convener: Lorenzo Pivetta (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

15:05 Implementation of Tango & Sardana in a Laboratory Scale at Max Born Institute

With the ongoing simplification of installation and administration as well as with the improvements of documentations, complex control systems such as TANGO become also interesting and feasible for smaller institutions without dedicated IT support units. Especially the tight binding to Python enables an easy access for experimentalists already at the student level. At the same time, laser-driven light sources now routinely cover the XUV and X-ray photon ranges, which requires similar beamline setups as known from large-scale facilities. Here we present the current status of the implementation of Tango and Sardana at the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Germany, which covers rather small single machine as well as complex multi-server and client setups for the different types of experiments.

Speaker: Dr Daniel Schick (Max Born Institute)

MBI-Daniel_schick.pdf

15:25 Tango based data archiving for the CALA high power laser facility

The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) in Munich is home to the ATLAS-3000 high power laser dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and applications thereof. We employ Tango as a control system for a growing number of hardware devices and specifically to record experimental data in an automated fashion. After a short overview of the facility, the talk will introduce the features and implementation of this archiving system.

Speaker: Dr Leonard Doyle (CALA)

Tango_at_CALA_introduction.pdf

15:45 S2Innovation community involvement and development

From its beginning in 2017, the S2Innovation collaborates with Institutes and companies from the Tango Controls Community as well as actively participate in Tango Control maintenance and development. The presentation will give an update on the recent progress of its development and a summary of its involvement in Tango Controls development.

Speaker: Piotr Goryl (S2Innovation Sp. z o. o,)

s2i-2109-101-S2I-status.pdf

16:05 → 16:25 Coffee break - Open discussion in Zoom rooms

16:25 → 17:40 Tango Ecosystem: I

Presentations about core and peripheral components of the Tango ecosystem: kernels, bindings, tools, GUIs (including Web-based technologies), archiving, logging, ...

Convener: Guifré Cuní Soler (ALBA Synchrotron)

16:25 C++ Tango Kernel Status

Latest news from the C++ kernel core developers.

Speakers: Mr Michal Liszcz (S2Innovation), Reynald BOURTEMBOURG (ESRF), Mr Thomas Braun (Byte Physics)

cppKernelStatus-upd-09-14.pdf

cppKernelStatus-upd-09-14.pptx

16:45 PyTango Status Report

Latest news from the PyTango project.

Speaker: Mr Anton Joubert (SARAO)

PyTango status report - source

PyTango Status Update.pdf

17:05 Taurus Status Report

Taurus is a framework for creating GUIs and CLIs for a control system using python and Qt.

This talk is a quick status report of the latest developments in Taurus, among which we highlight a new major version (Taurus 5) involving large refactoring of the code to modernize and improve it.

Speaker: Carlos Pascual Izarra

Taurus_Status_202109.pdf

17:20 Sardana Status Report

Sardana is a software suite for Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition in scientific installations. Here we present a yearly status report of the latest developments in Sardana as the result of the Sardana Community collaboration.

Speaker: Zbigniew Reszela

SardanaStatus2021.pdf

17:40 → 17:45 Ending session

Wednesday, 15 September

13:30 → 13:35 Welcome

Welcome words and opening address

13:35 → 14:50 Tango Ecosystem: II

Presentations about core and peripheral components of the Tango ecosystem: kernels, bindings, tools, GUIs (including Web-based technologies), archiving, logging, ...

Convener: Nicolas Leclercq (ESRF)

13:35 Pogo Roadmap

Proposal for a roadmap for pogo in the coming year.
All the items presented are open for discussion.

Speaker: Damien Lacoste (ESRF)

20210912_tango_meeting_pogo.pdf

How to get rid of xtext&xtend-KrystianKedron.pptx

13:50 Taranta Status

Speaker: Hélder Ribeiro (Atlar Innovation)

Taranta status V1.1.3

14:05 TangoGQL and Vue.js web applications at SOLARIS

At SOLARIS, we mainly use Taurus GUIs to conduct experiments and check beamlines' statuses. Due to necessary and heavy customisation of the library modules (custom classes etc.), some of the applications began having performance problems. After TangoGQL had been released, we started to use it as backend for our web applications that replace problematic GUIs. This talk will cover our modest accomplishments in TANGO web development.

Speaker: Tomasz Noga (SOLARIS)

Vue_TangoGQL_SOLARIS.pdf

14:20 IC@MS Status

IC@MS is an web application providing REST API for managing alarm system. During the presentation we will show progress of project development and
demonstrate application.

Speakers: Michal Gandor (S2Innovation), Mateusz Nabywaniec (S2Innovation)

IC@MS Status Tango Community Meeting.pdf

IC@MS Status Tango Community Meeting.pptx

14:35 Deployment of the alarm-handler system at Elettra and Fermi

A number of alarm-handler device servers and cumbia based GUIs have been deployed in both Elettra and Fermi control systems to handle thousands of alarms.

Speakers: Graziano Scalamera (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Lorenzo Pivetta (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

alarm_handler_tm20211014.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 Coffee break - Open discussion in Zoom rooms

15:10 → 16:20 Tango Ecosystem: III

Presentations about core and peripheral components of the Tango ecosystem: kernels, bindings, tools, GUIs (including Web-based technologies), archiving, logging, ...

Convener: Thorsten Kracht (DESY)

15:10 High-speed data streaming at MAX IV

MAX IV has seen an explosion in high-rate detectors. In order to cope with this amount of data we decided to change how the data acquisition should work. In this context a new paradigm has been developed to use data streams and a dedicated data acquisition cluster based on Kubernetes.

Speaker: Emil Rosendahl

Emil-Rosendahl-MAXIV-DAQ.pdf

15:25 Managing distributed systems with fandango

This talk will make an overview of the current scripts and devices used to manage distributed systems using fandango as an alternative to Jive/Astor. It will also open some discussions regarding the evolution of distributed-event systems.

Speaker: Sergio Rubio Manrique

15:40 Embedding a debugger in your PyTango device (lightning talk)

A very quick look at how we embedded a debugger (debugpy) into all SKA PyTango devices. This allows us to attach a VS Code debugger to a running device and peek inside.

Speaker: Anton Joubert (SARAO)

Debugging a PyTango device.pdf

15:50 TUI for Tango devices

Wrote a simple TUI for navigating Tango devices as a Rust learning project.

See https://github.com/SKAJohanVenter/tango-controls-tui

Packages used:
- https://crates.io/crates/tango-client
- https://crates.io/crates/tui

Speaker: Johan Venter (SARAO)

16:00 PUMA framework achieves load balancing and failover

Latest developments in the PUMA framework for the design of reliable, secure, scalable and user-oriented multi platform user interfaces have targeted the load balancing and failover objectives.
A multi host environment has been set up to test the features, that are currently of service to the clients.

Speaker: Giacomo strangolino (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

caserver: SSE server to access Tango (and more) control systems from anywhere

puma-tgautumn2020.pdf

puma-tgmeeting21.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Coffee break - Open discussion in Zoom rooms

16:40 → 17:40 News from the Steering Commity

This session is reserved to the Steering Commity members

Convener: Dr Andy Gotz (ESRF)

16:40 Latest news from the Tango Steering Committee

The Tango Steering Committee is made up of the sites who have signed a common collaboration to maintain and further develop Tango Controls by co-financing developments. Strategic decisions about the roadmap are discussed in the TSC meetings and guide the choice of developments to finance. This talk will present the latest news from the TSC, specifically the outcomes of the tendering process which was carried out in 2021.

Speaker: Andy Gotz (ESRF)

TANGO_Steering_Committee_Report_Sep2021.pdf

16:50 About IK Compagny

Speaker: Olga Merkulova (IK Company)

IK_Company_Presentation.pdf

17:00 About Byte Physics

Speaker: Mr Thomas Braun (Byte Physics)

byte-physics-Sep-2021.pdf

17:10 About Observatory Science

Speaker: Mr Alan Greer (Observatory Science)

OSL_TANGO_Community_Sep21.pdf

17:20 About S2 Innovation

Speaker: Piotr Goryl (S2Innovation Sp. z o. o,)

s2i-2109-131-S2I-about.pdf

17:30 Q&A

Speaker: Nicolas Leclercq (ESRF)

17:40 → 17:50 Ending session